Books by Barbara Ransby
“This book on Ella Baker is so important, because it allows students and readers to understand the Black freedom struggle and the civil rights movement, and it’s shot through the life of a phenomenal human being, who really was an important person. At every single significant struggle for black freedom and civil rights in this country, Ella Baker was there.” Read more...
The best books on The Civil Rights Era
Lerone Martin, Historian
Interviews where books by Barbara Ransby were recommended
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
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God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
by Charles Marsh -
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
by Clayborne Carson, Darlene Clark Hine, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill & Vincent Harding -
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)
The best books on The Civil Rights Era, recommended by Lerone Martin
The best books on The Civil Rights Era, recommended by Lerone Martin
The struggle for Black freedom in America has been going on since the first enslaved Africans were brought to the continent, but it was the civil rights era of 1954 to 1968 that finally resulted in a raft of legislation that gave equal citizenship to Black people in the United States. Here, Professor Lerone Martin of Stanford University recommends the best books to understand the American civil rights movement, with a focus on some of the individuals who were key to its success.
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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
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Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
Black women’s stories are often untold, but their critical role in American society and politics is finally being broadly acknowledged. Black activists today are building upon the legacy of African American women who have been using every open avenue to seek social justice for centuries. And “no matter how many obstacles are erected to impede them,” says award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain, Black women “are unstoppable.”
